Kirsten Dunst Quotes

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

'Freaky Friday' was my favorite movie in middle school.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.

Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'

For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.

I've a track record of successful comedy films spread over more than a decade.

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

I like youth, and I like stories about feeling things intensely and about transitional moments in human life. I reflect on my life and that's just a moment when I felt things probably the most intensely.

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.